Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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living

/ˈlɪvɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of live

Forms livings

  1. adjective Having life; alive. “a living, breathing child”
  2. adjective In use or existing. “Hunanese is a living language.”
  3. adjective True to life. “This is the living image of Fidel Castro.”
  4. adjective Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
  5. adjective Continually updated; not static “HTML is a living standard.”
  6. adjective Used as an intensifier. “He almost beat the living daylights out of me.”
  7. noun (uncountable) The state of being alive.
  8. noun Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood “it's a living”
  9. noun A style of life. “plain living”
  10. noun (with "the") Those who are alive: living people. “in the land of the living”
  11. noun (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

Synonyms

extant vital blasted doggone stinking lifey lifelike limned lively naturalistic quick life animation aliveness support keep livelihood bread and butter sustenance surviving

Antonyms

dead nonliving deceased departed

Etymology

From Middle English livynge, libbyng, livinde, livand, livende, libbinde, libbende, from Old English lifiġende, lifiende, libbende, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjandī, from Proto-Germanic *libjandz (“living”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian libbend (“living”), Dutch levend (“living”), German lebend (“living”), Swedish levande (“living”), Icelandic lifandi (“living”).

From Middle English livynge, libbynge, equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch levinge, (whence Dutch leving (“way of life, living”)), Middle Low German lēvinge (“living”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being alive; having life; as, a living creature.
  2. adjective Active; lively; vigorous; --said esp. of states of the mind , and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle.
  3. noun The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence. "Health and living." Shak.
  4. noun Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living. " A vicious living." Chaucer.

Etymology [From Live, v. i.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “living”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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